Claude Monet's Japanese Gardens at
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Claude Monet also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar
Monet (November 14, 1840 – December 5, 1926) was a founder
of French Impressionist painting. The term Impressionism is derived
from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise. Monet was
born to Adolphe and Louise Justine Monet, both of them second-generation
Parisians, of 90 Rue Laffitte, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris,
but his family moved in 1845 to Le Havre in Normandy when he
was five. In 1893, ten years after his arrival at Giverny (Eure department), Monet
bought the piece of land neighbouring his property on the other
side of the railway. It was crossed by a small brook, the Ru,
which is a diversion of the Epte, a tributary of the Seine River.
With the support of the prefecture of Giverny, Monet had the first small
pond dug even though his peasant neighbours were opposed. They
were afraid that his strange plants would poison the water. Later
on the pond would be enlarged to its present day size. Monet's water
garden at Giverney is full of asymmetries and curves. It is inspired by the
Japanese gardens that Monet knew from the prints he collected
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